These Charts Illustrate Women’s Struggle for Equal Pay
In honor of Equal Pay Day, a look at the progress still to be made.
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Trump’s ‘Buy American’ Pledge May Be At Risk With His Border Wall
In one of his first tweets as president, here’s how Donald Trump promised to spend taxpayer dollars: “We…
The Trump Administration Is Pretending Older LGBTQ Americans Don’t Exist
Often, battles over rights take place with a feverish public intensity, as we saw in January when crowds…
The American Heartland’s Uncertain Future
The biggest surprise of November 8th, 2016, was the fall of three crucial bricks in the great Midwestern…
The Death of the White Working Class Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
Ever since Hillary Clinton and the Democrats failed to hold the White House last November, some members of…
Trump’s Latest Executive Order Is Neither ‘Pro-Jobs’ nor ‘Pro-Environment’
President Donald Trump appears set to sign an executive order today dismantling the Clean Power Plan, the President…
Why Are White Americans Dying Off? Check These Charts
In 2015, Nobel economics laureate Angus Deaton and renowned economics professor Anne Case published a disturbing diagnosis for…
Raise the Minimum Wage, Lower the Teen Birth Rate
Teenage motherhood can be problematic for a variety of reasons. Women who have children that early in life…
Chinawood: Two Big Brands—‘Hollywood’ and ‘Made in China’—Merge Into One
Superheroes over superstitious narratives, a celebration of socialist core values, and more strong female leads: Predicting the future…
The Future of Corporate Political Spending
If Trump’s Supreme Court nomination is confirmed, we will likely continue to see a loosening of regulations on…